She is a Professor of Sociology of Education and Pedagogy. Her research interests cover youth and schooling in extreme urban poverty, environmental studies, social inclusion and educational inequalities. She has been involved in several research projects in the slums of San Martin (Buenos Aires), close to the dumpsite of Ceamse and nearby the University. She has experience in innovative community-based research methods through artistic, ethnographic, digital and audio-visual practices. In her most recent projects she focuses on urban cartographies of education and social inequalities. She is a CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) researcher at UNSAM, where she also works as a graduate and postgraduate teacher. She is the Director of the Human Sciences Research Laboratory (LICH), that belongs to CONICET and the School of Humanities, UNSAM, and of the doctorate degree in human sciences at the same university. She published books and numerous articles in academic journals, both Argentinean and international. She has taught postgraduate courses and lectures at Latin American, European and Canadian universities. She has a PhD in Education and a Master's degree in Social Sciences.

Recent Publications:

• Grinberg, Silvia. (2020). Cartografías de la cotidianidad: Un estudio de la serie barrio/escuela/sujetos en contextos de pobreza urbana. Psicoperspectivas, 19(3), 131-142. Epub 15 de noviembre de 2020.https://dx.doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-vol19-issue3-fulltext-2079
• Grinberg, Silvia. “Etnografía, biopolítica y colonialidad. genealogías de la precariedad urbana en la región metropolitana de buenos aires”. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.19-39.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n34.02.
• Silvia Grinberg (2019) Self-made school and the everyday making in Buenos Aires slums, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40:4, 560-577, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2019.1565991
• Grinberg, Silvia Mariela; Mantiñán, Luciano Martín; Machado, Mercedes Libertad; Carcova is Love: Becoming Youth in the Slums of the Global South; Springer; 6; 2019; 149-162
• Besana, Patricio Bruno, Gutiérrez, Ricardo Alberto, & Grinberg, Silvia. (2015). Pobreza urbana, comunidad local y Estado-socio en Argentina: la provisión de servicios públicos en un asentamiento de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales, 60(225), 79-102. http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0185-19182015000300079&lng=es&tlng=es.
• Grinberg, Silvia Mariela; Verón, Eduardo; #COVID-19: Shock y el derecho a tener derechos en las periferias metropolitanas. Un estudio en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires; Universidad de Guadalajara; 2021; 232-257